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I have an idea from that, but I don't have anyclue how to do it. I Have
Ubuntu 6.10, gnome, and 2 disjointed screens. Now I'd like to bind 2
keyboards, one for each screen, but still use my mouse as of now, jumping
to another screen over the edge of monitor. Would that be possible in any
way?

> Hi, Ireaded your article about 6 seat Linux enviroment.
>
> I have an idea from that, but I don't have anyclue how to do it. I Have
> Ubuntu 6.10, gnome, and 2 disjointed screens. Now I'd like to bind 2
> keyboards, one for each screen, but still use my mouse as of now, jumping
> to another screen over the edge of monitor. Would that be possible in any
> way?

Sure, just run two copies of whatever it is you want on each screen.
Note that without things like Xinerama support, you won't be able to
move windows between screens, but then this can't be a requirement if
you don't want the mouse to move between them either. For instance:

exec fvwm -d :0.0
exec fvwm -d :0.1

Now, assuming you setup X just to use two monitors without enabling
things like Xinerama, such operations tend to happen automatically in my
experience, as the above example with FVWM. I couldn't say how GNOME or
KDE works in that regard.

-- Thomas Adam

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"Wanting to feel; to know what is real. Living is a lie." -- Purpoise
Song, by The Monkees.

I have my screens enabled already etc, can't drag windwos to eachother as
said, and I know that too.

My point was that I'd like to bind one keyboard to one screen, but have
the one mouse jumping across as it is now. mouse cursor alone does change
screen just by going over the screen edge. my point here is that I could
for example play full screen game on screen 0 and still be able to write
IM with Gaim on another screen.

Current situation is that when I drag the mouse to another sceen, that
"session" becomes the one also having my keyboard.